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I soured my wort pre boil with WLP 677 for 2.5 days before boiling for 90 minutes. My garage still stinks like funky cheese. Also, I just opened up fermenter and I get a funky cheese smell. What smells should I get from the lacto souring? Just wondering if funky cheese smell is what I was...

I recently Soured a Berliner Weiss wort for 2.5 days to a PH of 3.7 with lactobacillus (WLP 677). The wort was then boiled for 90 minutes and cooled before pitching hydrated US-05. It's been over 60 hrs at 65 degrees and I do not have any signs of fermentation. There is not a problem with the...

I'll be brewing an Imperial Stout that finished at 10% ABV last time using US-05. I'd like to try an English Ale yeast to add some additional flavor profile from the Yeast. I have access to various white lab strains and some dry at the LHBS. Any recommendations? I know WLP 007 will chew...

Currently fermenting 2 - 5.5 gallon batches of an Imperial porter that had a starting gravity of 1.087 using WLP013. Air locks clogged, then added a blow off tube to one. Eruptions were going off everywhere! Lids on the buckets looked like they were going to blow off and beer was oozing out...

Just brewed a 10 gallon batch of a Citra IPA last weekend. Original gravity into two 5 gallon batches was 1.070. I used a second generation WLP001 in the first and a second generation Conan YG01 in the other. The conan seems to have stalled at 1.022 while the WLP 001 keeps fermenting with a...